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Photo taken on Summer camp in France

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Are you interested in helping our Leadership Team on Troop evening or at Camps. We are short of helpers at the moment and any time you could offer will be greatly appreciated. Please send an email to the Contact us above if you feel you could help. Many thanks.

We are migrating all our Admin to OSM which is your place to go to see the lates program and notices and all event invites will be sent via OSM. Please ensure that your contact, medical, allergy and food details are current as that is the information we use for emergency contact and event planning. Click here to go to OSM

 

Useful links:

Fitness challenge: For this badge we are doing fitness with a diiference (as chosen by yourselves!) It was good to see everybody join in the practice session where the challenge is to improve your moves whilst moving to keep fit. Round 2 to prove your fitness will follow in the coming weeks.

Link to Blinding Lights dance instruction video:

Link to Blinding Lights dance video to practice your steps (a good one for all the family):

Knots you should know: Reef knot, Clove hitch, Round turn 2 half hitch, Square lashing, Diagonal lashing, sheer lashing, tripod lashing.

Link: Scouting Knots

Grid References video Click here. Ordnance Survey Beginners Guide Click here.

Name 4 types of fire (Hint - A type of tent, a type of cabin, an ancient monument and a link to France)

Be able to draw a camp layout - Link to fact sheet Campsite Layout.pdf

Learn to tie a Friendship Knot - Link to video Click here to play

You will need to know the parts of a compass. See this link for a Guide to the parts of a compass

We looked at the use of axe and saw. See this link how to use axe and saw safely.

Morse Code and Phonetic Alphabet Click here for info sheet

Weekly Challenges and BIGG Challenge Badge: Well done to all scouts that joined in with our challenges during lockdown. Many of you have completed the BIGG Challenge, very well done indeed. For those nearly there we will we will let you know which elements are missing, if you choose to do them email us with your work

Exercise Walk Challenge: This challenge has now finished where the scouts and leaders covered a total of 3069 miles. Wow well done all.

Challenge submissions should be Emailed to Armstrong with the name of the challenge and the scouts name in the title please.

Walking Challenge - we have reached the North Pole!!!

Water Challenge - video on Instagram (link above)

The Armstrong Covid Rap

Armstrong scouts is on the zoom,   doing challenges is what they do,   telling bad jokes too
There is a scavenger hunt that we do,    then pioneering and bunting making too
Were counting our miles day by day,   were doing this the Armstrong way
Walking past Prague and Moscow too,   we are one mighty crew,    every week we learn something new
Yar its scouts zoom ,  yar don’t mess with earth gang it’ll be your doom
Yar weekly miles,   yar weekly trials
Yaar language of sign,    yaar when we Zoom it is going pretty fine
Coronovirus keeping us in,   away from all our kin
All i wanted was a mars bar,    now living on camp food
Parents complaining,    kids busy,    life is a real misery
Its the fourteeth week of lockdown,   its really starting to make me frown
My hands are getting sore,   with this hand washing galore
I hope school will be clean after this Covid nineteen
Although its been really hot, in my port its really not.
Paper Aeroplane making instruction: Detailed instruction and a video of the world record with instructions: Record Throw plus instructions

A summary of our trips to the Zoom so far is here: Past Trips to the Zoom

For those scouts doing Virtual Gold Award click here for resources

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